Rejected by Bartlett #8

Before the computer, the animals, mortal though not sentient, seemed our nearest neighbors in the known universe. Computers, with their interactivity, their psychology, with whatever fragments of intelligence they have, now bid for this place.

-Sherry Turkle, MIT Researcher

It will likely take at least another generation before man's affection for computers is seen as anything but "creepy." Consider, however, how mainstream our love of cars has become.